Fuping City, a small border city, was extremely busy because of Huo Guang's arrival, and 30,000 horses made this small city look particularly solemn, and since receiving Huo Guang's order, many people from Chang'an, Bashu and other places have gathered in this small city one after another.

When Huo Guang came to Fuping, it was already ten days after setting off from Wolf Juxu Mountain, and there were less than fifty days left for him. Huo Tang, Lu Shu and the others had already arrived in Fuping two days ago, and all kinds of news were still gathering here.

"We're running out of time, so let's talk less and bring all the things you sorted out." Huo Guang walked into the Fuping County Ya, said to Huo Tang, Lu Shu and the others who were already waiting, and walked to the county government hall without stopping.

The Fuping County Government has been changed into a temporary line, a huge sand table above the lobby has already been prepared, more than a dozen scribes are constantly busy, sorting out and summarizing the news gathered from all over the place, and then passing on the news one by one, the lobby is full of the sound of paper flying and busy.

This small border town, far from the war, was also enveloped in an atmosphere of tension brought about by the war.

"Let's talk about the situation there first." Huo Guang led his generals to the sand table and asked.

Huo Tang and Dongfang Shuo followed Huo Guang's side one by one, and Huo Tang has always been in charge of intelligence, although he has experienced Huo Guang's impeachment for Huo Tang's meddling in military affairs, but this time Huo Guang still did not shy away from letting Huo Tang come to Fuping to meet, and she still plays an important role by Huo Guang's side.

"The main cavalry of the Xiongnu alone in Uwei is about 130,000, and they have been confronting His Majesty's 150,000 army on the front line of Wolf Juxu Mountain for several days. His Majesty, in accordance with the advice of the Hou Ye, appointed Lu Bode and Gongsun He as the left and right forward generals, and the two sides have had several tentative encounters, but neither of them has invested more than 50,000 troops. Huo Tang picked up a piece of letterhead and concisely said the recent situation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Mobei.

"It seems that as Hou Ye said, Uwei is going to trap 150,000 troops in the grassland and wait for the arrival of winter." Dongfang Shuo said with some concern on the side.

"I'm afraid that Zhao Ponu in Hexi is also trapped to death by King Youxian, right?" Huo Guang's eyes fell on the place called the snowy region in the southwest of Longxi and Shapan, but what he said was the situation in Hexi.

"Zhao Ponu attacked several times, and the Right Xian King avoided not fighting, and after Zhao Ponu returned to the army, the army of the Right Xian King approached the second county of Jiuquan Wuwei again, and he couldn't shake it off if he couldn't get rid of it." Huo Tang continued to tell the situation in Hexi, and everything here was as Huo Guang expected.

"Damn...... This is by no means the style of the Huns....... "Huo Guang slammed his fist on the sand table, this kind of scoundrel but very effective tactics is not the style of the Huns at all, but it is this simplest method, so that the two most powerful armies of the Han Dynasty cannot move.

"It's up to us, how did you check the news about the Qiang people?" Huo Guang has been focusing on the position of the Qiang people on the sand table from the beginning.

"Master Hou, you have to thank Aunt Sima this time!" Suddenly, Huo Tang said a strange sentence, not only did not answer Huo Guang's question, but mentioned Zhuo Wenjun.

"Huh? What do you mean? Huo Guang turned around and looked at Huo Tang puzzled.

I saw Huo Tang glance at the crowd behind him and nodded at a middle-aged man in his forties. Then the middle-aged man hurriedly lowered his head and stepped forward to pay homage to Huo Guang.

"The villain Shu Jun Zhuo Junchen has seen the Marquis of Anyang!" The middle-aged man was dressed in a brocade robe, and at first glance he was a rich and noble person, he called himself Zhuo Junchen of Shu County, and Huo Guang seemed to understand something.

"Zhuo Wangsun is yours?"

"Hui Hou Ye, it is my father!" Zhuo Junchen replied respectfully.

"Oh? If you are your own family, get up and talk back! Huo Guang suddenly realized that this Zhuo Junchen was Zhuo Wenjun's younger brother. The Zhuo family is a wealthy businessman in Shu County, once known as the richest man in Shu, with thousands of family assets and slaves. The largest gathering place of the Qiang people is also close to Shu County, and if you want to come to the Zhuo family, you must also have business dealings with the Qiang people, perhaps the Han Dynasty knows the Qiang people the most is the Zhuo family of Shu County.

"Master Xie, since receiving the letter from the little sister, the villain has rushed to Fuping non-stop. If you want to talk about the understanding of the Qiang people, I am afraid that the officials of the Great Order are not as good as our Zhuo family. Zhuo Junchen stood up excitedly and said as if to take credit.

Huo Guang called him his own family, which made Zhuo Junchen particularly excited, although the Zhuo family has been extremely rich for generations and has a good personal relationship with the officials of Shu County, but a businessman is a businessman after all, and it is difficult to enter the eyes of the real imperial high-level. Originally, although Zhuo Wenjun Sima Xiangru arrived in Chang'an, he had little contact with the Zhuo family in Shu County, when Zhuo Junchen suddenly received a handwritten letter from his sister, when he learned that his sister was respected as an elder by Huo Guang, the Marquis of Anyang, with the keen eye of Zhuo Junchen, he knew that the opportunity for his family to go to the next level had come.

"Let's talk about the old things slowly, and now the military situation is urgent, tell me all the news about the Qiang people that you know." Huo Guang's affection for Zhuo Wenjun is naturally speechless, and even with some love for this Zhuo Wenjun's younger brother, in front of Zhuo Junchen, Huo Guang did not call himself Benhou, but called himself me.

"Yes..... Zhuo Junchen nodded hurriedly, as long as he took Huo Guang's line, there would be more opportunities in the future.

"If you want to talk about this Qiang people, more than ten years ago they were still savages. They live in this narrow strip of land, and the vast area behind them is called the Snow Region, which is rumored to be close to the sky, and it is difficult for people and animals to survive all year round, and the thin air is difficult for birds to cross, but there have also been Qiang people who have crossed this snowy region, and from here it is the Dian Kingdom. So in fact, don't look at the Qiang people occupy a vast land, in fact, there are not many places where they live. Zhuo Junchen pointed to the sand table, compared the position of the southwest and northwest, and then pointed from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the south of the Dian Kingdom, that is, the later Yunnan region.

"Snowy ....." Huo Guang muttered, he was naturally no stranger to this name, the snowy plateau, which was called the last pure land on the earth in later generations, was still a completely undeveloped and uninhabited place in this era, and there were perhaps only extremely rare primitive humans.

"Master Hou also knows about the snow region?" Zhuo Junchen asked Huo Guang with some curiosity, he still knew the statement of Snow Land from the Qiang people.

"Let's continue without you," Huo Guang shook his head and said thoughtfully.

"Yes, the Qiang people originally had forty or fifty tribes, large and small, and although these tribes had the same customs, they did not belong to each other, and even had few contacts. But....... Since five years ago, a Qiang people called Cangyang Liangyuan suddenly rose strongly, in just five years, by force or by virtue of their personal charm to unify these Qiang tribes, it is said that he has a fierce general named Mangbu Luozhi is the first warrior of the Qiang people, there are ten thousand people who are not brave, and now it is this Mangbu Luozhi who is attacking Longxi. Zhuo Junchen continued, he did know the Qiang people very well, especially for the upper nobles of the Qiang people.

"Kurao Ryohara? Mangbroch? Can you unify so many tribes in five years? I heard that the Zhuo family is an iron-smelting family, so your trade with the Qiang people will not be mainly ironware, right? Huo Guang whispered the name of the leader of the Qiang people, and suddenly looked at Zhuo Junchen with an unkind gaze.

"It's ........ The villain did sell some iron tools to the Qiang people, but I didn't know at the time that they would invade the Han! Moreover, with the gradual unification of the Qiang people, they rarely bought iron tools from us, and in the last two years they have traded more cloth brocade and other goods. Zhuo Junchen shrank his head and said with some embarrassment.

In this era, the landlords were very powerful, and most of them set up private workshops to manufacture iron tools and other things, and even Huo Guang himself had an iron workshop, which was completely prohibited.

"Their 100,000 army is marching eastward, how many Qiang people are left on this plateau?" Huo Guang didn't bother too much about Zhuo Junchen's sale of iron tools to the Qiang people, but asked the question he was most concerned about.

The rise of the Qiang people is a historical inevitability, and without the Zhuo family of Shu County, there will be other families selling iron tools to the Qiang people. At this point, there is no point in pursuing these things again.

"Their living customs are similar to those of the Huns, and 100,000 cavalry is not a small number for the Qiang people, it is estimated that it should account for seven or eight of them." Zhuo Junchen continued to answer Huo Guang.

"Cangyang Liangyuan didn't enter Longxi? Do you know where his court is? Huo Guang asked again.

"Cangyang Liangyuan did not leave the plateau, and only Mangbrozhi attacked Longxi this time." This time it was not Zhuo Junchen but Huo Tang who answered Huo Guang, although the Han had almost no understanding of the Qiang people, but with the beginning of the war, some basic information was still more or less mastered, at least the Qiang commander who attacked Longxi already knew.

"The Qiang people are also nomadic and do not have a fixed settlement. Wang Ting..... The Qiang people have not yet been established, and there is no so-called royal court. Hey, that's not right...... I remembered one thing. Zhuo Junchen subconsciously replied to Huo Guang, but when he talked about the Qiang royal court, he seemed to suddenly recall something.

This time, not only Huo Guang, everyone looked at Zhuo Junchen curiously, but it made him slightly embarrassed, knowing that he had lost his temper just now, and then hurriedly said: "Two years ago, I saw a Qiang nobleman in Chengdu, this person is very special, he not only wears Han clothes, but even his manners and manners are completely the same as those of Han people, if it weren't for his appearance and skin color, it would even make people think that he is a Han Confucian." At that time, he mentioned to me that the Qiang people were preparing to form a system, and their leader, Cangyang Liangyuan, was also planning to become king, and said that he would build a royal city on Jishi Mountain. If what this man says is true, then there is probably a royal city here......."

Zhuo Junchen recalled and said, it was originally just a trivial matter, if it weren't for the Qiang nobleman who was too special, Zhuo Junchen would probably have forgotten about it, and finally he circled it thousands of miles west of Shu County. There is Jishi Mountain, although it is called a mountain, but it is actually a small mountain range, seven or eight hundred miles long.

Everyone's eyes looked at the direction of the stone mountain on the sand table, and it seemed that everyone saw the dawn, as long as they could find the Qiang royal city, capture or kill Cangyang Liangyuan, and the 100,000 Qiang people who attacked Longxi had to retreat to the plateau.

"Report ...... Hou Ye...... Longxi reported urgently....... "Just as everyone was waiting for Huo Guang to make a decision, a hurried voice came from outside the county office.

A disheveled and dusty cavalryman ran into the county government hall, and then knelt down to Huo Guang and said: "Master Hou, two days ago, Qiang Dalun ordered to dig up Weishui, which flooded Shangqi, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people outside Shangqi City and the soldiers and civilians in Shangqi City were killed and wounded...... Now there is a country within a radius of hundreds of miles....... General Gongsun Ao has also killed himself......"

"Ah......" Zhuo Junchen couldn't help but cry out, and the others also turned pale, as if the whole world was darkened.

"What's the name of that Qiang nobleman you're talking about? What does Qiang Dalun do? Who is this Da Lun? Huo Guang stared at Zhuo Junchen, and an invisible murderous aura burst out in his eyes.

Zhuo Junchen broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, his voice was a little panicked, and he said intermittently: "That...... The man's name was Dusong Ruozan....... The Qiang people's Dalun is similar to the prime minister of the Han Dynasty...... Dalun is the ...... of Dusong Ruozan"